Re: [Nolug] WinXP print sharing alternatives

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 20:08, Retrolin@aol.com wrote:
> ok ok...I've tried and tried with this SAMBA stuff and with this
> CUPS stuff. THe farthest I can get is to get my linux box to
> connect to the printer shared on the windows XP machine, however,
> if I go to print or print a test page, it loses the connection,
> and i can't get it back unlesss I delete the queue and create a
> new one...only to do the exact same thing (lose connection when
> I go to actually use it) what I was wondering is if there are
> any SIMPLE printer sharing software I can install on windows XP
> that would make using it's printer much much easier.. something
> like Novell perhaps exept a lot less computer overtaking and can
> be running without excessive interferance(getting in the way)
> whenever the computer is turned on.

What version of SAMBA and CUPS are you using?

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